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    "content": "accident and subsequently the next morning; join those who are physically disabled. It is, therefore, foolhardy for us not to take care of our physically challenged persons. In fact, it is enlightened self interest that we should make sure that systems are in place to take care of those kinds of people because you do not know whether you are going to join their ranks tomorrow. It is not anything strange and it happens every day on our roads and elsewhere in our society. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, from the outset, I want to say that I believe sincerely and in all honesty that a person who is challenged is exactly the same as myself. The only difference is that, for whatever reasons, for whatever decision that was made by God, the Almighty, it was decided that that person is going to be physically challenged or otherwise. The NCPWD is severely challenged in this course and I believe that part of the performance contract that the Council should sign is to ensure that this provision that Sen. Njoroge has brought to the House has been followed. Their appraisal, as to whether they have executed their mandate or otherwise, should be predicated on whether they have met this part of the provision of the Bill that is going to be law soon. It is my view that in order for them to monitor this particular provision, the NCPWD should have either; a. A branch in every county ; or b. A representative of the Council in every county Indeed just to ensure that this is what is going to happen, I believe – I wish that Sen., Njoroge had included this in the amendment – that it should be mandatory for the NCPWD to have branches in the counties in order for these laws to be performed. Having said that, he would leave the management of the execution to them but it would be mandatory for them to see that this is done. Not just that, we also need to see county by county data. When we get this data that Sen. Njoroge is asking for – and this Senate will demand – I believe that it should be county by county. Let us not just have a vision and a report that says that 300 people in Kenya have been employed. Let us go county by county. What is the population of challenged persons in each county? How many of them have been employed? How many of them have been given business opportunities? Now that we are murraming roads all over the place and we know that there is a provision for the youth that is being given in the county businesses; we know that there is a provision for women and we know that counties are trying to meet the business aspect that is supposed to be provided for women. We also want to see that there is also a similar provision that has been given to the persons who are physically challenged. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, intentions are not good enough. Our stores in Government are full of all sorts of well-intended documents; beautiful and flowery ones with nice names. However, they are never implemented. The idea here is to ensure that we do not just speak or intend to do these things. We must get them done. This is the issue. In fact, most of the challenges and the reason our development process takes so long and is taking longer than we expect is there. The devil is in the details. The detail in this particular case is: How do you ensure that this is implemented? We say that communication is not complete until you get feedback. Until you know that something has been done, you must not assume that it has been done. Therefore, to me, what this The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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